diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/coreutils-6.3.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/coreutils-6.3.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d7fe22e351fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/coreutils/coreutils-6.3.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "coreutils-6.3";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.3.tar.bz2;
+    md5 = "065e9662c5aa2694693910ca9e6c9ec8";
+  };
+}